Honor
Essays

While popular Western culture often confuses Samurai and Ninja philosophy to be one in the same, the Samurai and the Ninja follow very different paths of honor. The Samurai did not make use of espionage skills, while…

Wilfred Owen is indisputably one of the best war poets of 20th century. For him war was nothing but a futile exercise that produces mass death and destruction. It is amazing what the poet managed to achieve in his short…

Happiness in Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics"

This paper analyzes Jung's concept of 'the shadow' as it relates to Heart of Darkness, Things Fall Apart, and Apocalypse Now. The concept of 'the shadow' is that it is a repository of all of the dark desires of the self and society that we wish to avoid. In the past, Europeans have rendered nonwhite peoples into 'shadows.' This reflects European anxieties about sexuality and violence rather than functions a true expression of culture of nonwhite peoples themselves.

In "We Get To Carry Each Other: U2 and Kierkegaard on Authentic Love," Mike (2007) compares U2 front man Bono with philosopher Soren Kierkegaard. The author draws the unlikely connections between a 19th century Danish…

The Qatar community implies that wasta is making citizens lazy by forcing them to rely on wasta to meet needs and solve problems. They view the government as corrupt by only placing members of their families and tribes as wasta and using wasta's influence on citizens for votes into Parliament. Wasta is being viewed as stripping citizens of their right to independence.

The strategically important Human Resources function of performance management has been greatly enhanced by John W. Boudreau's LAMP framework. Using Logic, Analytics, Measures and Process, this "decision science" focuses on the three key aspects of Human Resources: impact, effectiveness and efficiency. Applying these concepts specifically to the development, implementation and evaluation of a performance management system in a China-based US-China joint venture whose employees are predominantly Chinese nationals, Boudreau's system would necessarily employ the special leadership and feedback necessary in establishing this American-Chinese venture due to marked differences between Western and Chinese culture.

William Shakespeare's play King Henry IV is not only intriguing because of the storyline or rich language, as it is also interesting because of the strategies the playwright uses with the purpose of emphasizing…

Phaedra" and "Hippolytus": A tragedy of desire or disrespect for the gods?

Mona Caron's the Market Street Railway Mural